A Rare Find at Glacier’s End

By Stewardship Specialist Phillip Weldy One October day last year, our stewardship crew was out at Glacier’s End Nature Preserve treating invasive species. It was a sunny, warm fall day in the woods. I was moving through a relatively invasive-free section of the preserve when I heard a rustle [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:20:08+00:00December 1, 2020|Betley Woods, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on A Rare Find at Glacier’s End

Saving Habitat for Endangered and Threatened Species

Part of a series on CILTI’s conservation targets by guest blogger Ed Pope Some of Central Indiana’s core conservation areas contain plant or animal species that are endangered or threatened, either statewide or nationally: […]

By |2025-02-14T00:18:40+00:00October 14, 2020|Betley Woods, Blossom Hollow, Blue Bluff, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Saving Habitat for Endangered and Threatened Species

Declining Eastern Box Turtles Benefit from Tree Plantings

Creating future habitat for Eastern box turtles and many other species, we kicked off our million tree initiative this year. We’ve pledged to plant one million trees over the coming years in strategic sites, linking up hundreds of acres of fragmented land to benefit sensitive wildlife. Our tree-planting efforts [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:21:23+00:00September 24, 2020|A Million Trees, Betley Woods, Meltzer Woods, Mossy Point, Newsroom, Properties, Wallace F. Holladay|Comments Off on Declining Eastern Box Turtles Benefit from Tree Plantings

Shelby, Johnson county areas benefit from environmental settlement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2020 A $600,000 grant resulting from a legal settlement equips the Central Indiana Land Trust Inc. (CILTI) to add to the properties it protects in Johnson and Shelby counties. […]

By |2025-02-14T00:19:20+00:00June 25, 2020|Betley Woods, Blossom Hollow, Homepage, Meltzer Woods, Newsroom, Press Releases, Properties|Comments Off on Shelby, Johnson county areas benefit from environmental settlement

Land Trust plants first of 1 million trees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2020 This week the Central Indiana Land Trust Inc. (CILTI) is planting 15,000 trees in Johnson and Parke counties. These are the first of CILTI’s 1 million trees being planted in Central Indiana and in addition to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s commitment to planting 1 [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:19:20+00:00May 12, 2020|A Million Trees, Betley Woods, Mossy Point, Press Releases|Comments Off on Land Trust plants first of 1 million trees

Hills of Gold BioBlitz Report Complete

In the spring of 2015, CILTI partnered with the Indiana Academy of Science for our first ever Bioblitz. We are excited to now have the full report from this Bioblitz survey that took place on 695 acres of the Hills of Gold Conservation area (including the Blossom Hollow and [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:21:40+00:00August 23, 2017|Betley Woods, Blossom Hollow, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on Hills of Gold BioBlitz Report Complete

New spider species discovered at Johnson County nature preserve

Release Date: Dec. 5, 2016 97 acres added to Glacier’s End Nature Preserve As it announces the closing of a purchase that adds 97 acres to the Glacier’s End Nature Preserve, the Central Indiana Land Trust is also celebrating the discovery of a new species on that land. [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:19:28+00:00December 5, 2016|Betley Woods, Newsroom, Properties|Comments Off on New spider species discovered at Johnson County nature preserve

Glacier’s End Nature Preserve created

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2015 Glacier’s End Nature Preserve created Central Indiana Land Trust closes on purchase of Johnson County site where glaciers stopped In southwest Johnson County, a preserve 12,000 years in the making is now forever protected.  Glacial activity long ago helped to create unique geological [...]

By |2025-02-14T00:19:36+00:00July 14, 2015|Betley Woods, Newsroom, Press Releases, Properties|Comments Off on Glacier’s End Nature Preserve created
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